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Article #10902Re: Any new instructions in a i486?
From: David Willmore
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 15:27
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 15:27
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rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes: >Exactly. I would almost bet that it is some weird timing problem. That's where my money is. Linux, the PD unix system, had quite a few problems with race conditions within the filesystem code in earlier versions. Each new fast processor that it got moved to found more and more. It wouldn't suprise me that the DLC does something (read some series of instructions) in a sufficiently different amount of time than the 486 does. That would be enough. I wouldn't trust a company that can't remove such simple problems from its code. Then again, I don't trust NeXT anyway. :) Cheers, David Willmore willmore@iastate.edu
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